你们好！
我叫爱可你！我学中文！Just trying to practice some of the sentence structures we have learned in the past!
This week has been a lot of fun, on Monday we took a checkup on the Chapter Five vocabulary we have been learning dealing with roommates, friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, etc. In this chapter we have learned to say things like 你有室友吗？That means "Do you have a roommate?" These sentences were really interesting to learn because it is fun to be able to introduce our friends and talk about them. 我来介绍一下。。。after that, we began to learn the song called Dui Bu Qi! It is a lot of fun to sing a long to because it encompasses so many of the terms we have learned already, as well as some that we have not learned yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XTBwvi0h2E Here is the link to the song!
On Wednesday, we started the class by singing the song together "Dui Bu Qi!" Our class helper Gao Si helped us learn the first four sentences, by breaking it down into parts for us. That made it easier to understand and pronounce the terms. Next, I had to introduce my friend in front of the class and this is an example of what I said! 我来介绍一下， 他叫Thallee。Thalee 是我的好朋友和室友。 他是美国人。他说英文和西班牙文。 他学shang ye。It was fun to be able to say some sentences about my friend and introduce her to the class!
Friday we went over the song again and sang along to it! Also, Sun Laoshi made some of the students come up front and present about their friends, it was not easy for some to remember what to say about introductions and how to pronounce it! After all, this is new to all of us!
Hope everyone has a good weekend!!
Zai Jian!
Ai Ke Ni
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Friday, October 19, 2012
Week 6
你好！ 怎么样！
This week is the week of midterm presentations! I had the privilege of presenting first on Monday. My presentation was a combination of the Chinese culture, as well as a mix of both of my majors, International Business and Marketing! After some thought, I decided to present on the idea of the corporation McDonald's going abroad into China, and how they had to alter their business structure to make their company succesful when going overseas. Researching this topic brought up a lot of interesting information that I would have otherwise not known about McDonalds. For example, while I understand companies have to change their products to fit the customs and culture of the country they are establishing themselves in, I wasn't familiar with the types of products that McDonald's is offering currently in China. The Filet-O-Shrimp is huge in China, as well as items such as: The green tea and red bean sundae, seaweed shaker fries, the prosperity burger, and many other products. One thing that I found out while interviewing 望老师 was that, KFC was actually a bigger corporation in China and was more succesful. She thought that McDonald's did not offer enough Chinese culture based food and therefore did not enjoy McDonald's as much as KFC. KFC has also dominated the Chicken fast food market, so McDonald's had to reorganize their strategy and they are now pushing their beef products more heavily. In my opinion, that is what corporations struggle the most with when they go abroad. They fail to recognize just how important it is to research the market that you will be entering in to.
Wednesday in class, there were three other presentations that were presented to our class. They were very interesting and I really enjoyed learning more about the culture and customs of China and their people. My favorite presentation of the day was probably the one on the Chinese Superstitions, and realizing how much of an emphasis they place on it. For example, four is an unlucky number in China because it is nearly homophonous to the word "death". So many buildings will skip the fourth floor just as many American buildings do not have a "thirteenth" floor.
Today, Friday, we went over the rap song we have been learning the past week with our class, and we performed that in groups! We also had two more presentations today, one on international business and Chinese, the other on Marketing and Chinese. It was interesting to hear about both of those especially because they pertain to my majors. Lastly, after reviewing some of the past chapters we have learned, I have discovered five particular sentences that have tripped me up when I have done either the check up or the worksheets, those being: 你的同学是谁？， 同学的工程书。，那是我的同学的工程书。，对了，你是那过人？和， 我回说一点中文。
All in all, this week was a nice break! It was really cool to hear about what other students had researched about the Chinese culture, and to be able to see how it affected them in different ways. I liked to see the connections between why other students were studying Chinese, and how it benefitted them in their major. My goal for this upcoming week and the rest of the term would be to really understand the stroke orders, and to improve my memory recognition of the hanzi words!
Zai Jian!!
Ai Ke Ni
This week is the week of midterm presentations! I had the privilege of presenting first on Monday. My presentation was a combination of the Chinese culture, as well as a mix of both of my majors, International Business and Marketing! After some thought, I decided to present on the idea of the corporation McDonald's going abroad into China, and how they had to alter their business structure to make their company succesful when going overseas. Researching this topic brought up a lot of interesting information that I would have otherwise not known about McDonalds. For example, while I understand companies have to change their products to fit the customs and culture of the country they are establishing themselves in, I wasn't familiar with the types of products that McDonald's is offering currently in China. The Filet-O-Shrimp is huge in China, as well as items such as: The green tea and red bean sundae, seaweed shaker fries, the prosperity burger, and many other products. One thing that I found out while interviewing 望老师 was that, KFC was actually a bigger corporation in China and was more succesful. She thought that McDonald's did not offer enough Chinese culture based food and therefore did not enjoy McDonald's as much as KFC. KFC has also dominated the Chicken fast food market, so McDonald's had to reorganize their strategy and they are now pushing their beef products more heavily. In my opinion, that is what corporations struggle the most with when they go abroad. They fail to recognize just how important it is to research the market that you will be entering in to.
Wednesday in class, there were three other presentations that were presented to our class. They were very interesting and I really enjoyed learning more about the culture and customs of China and their people. My favorite presentation of the day was probably the one on the Chinese Superstitions, and realizing how much of an emphasis they place on it. For example, four is an unlucky number in China because it is nearly homophonous to the word "death". So many buildings will skip the fourth floor just as many American buildings do not have a "thirteenth" floor.
Today, Friday, we went over the rap song we have been learning the past week with our class, and we performed that in groups! We also had two more presentations today, one on international business and Chinese, the other on Marketing and Chinese. It was interesting to hear about both of those especially because they pertain to my majors. Lastly, after reviewing some of the past chapters we have learned, I have discovered five particular sentences that have tripped me up when I have done either the check up or the worksheets, those being: 你的同学是谁？， 同学的工程书。，那是我的同学的工程书。，对了，你是那过人？和， 我回说一点中文。
All in all, this week was a nice break! It was really cool to hear about what other students had researched about the Chinese culture, and to be able to see how it affected them in different ways. I liked to see the connections between why other students were studying Chinese, and how it benefitted them in their major. My goal for this upcoming week and the rest of the term would be to really understand the stroke orders, and to improve my memory recognition of the hanzi words!
Zai Jian!!
Ai Ke Ni
Friday, October 12, 2012
Week Five
Ni hao!
On Monday of this week we started off the class learning about bu shou- radicals, by taking a short checkup on them. Some of the following radicals we were quizzed on were: mu, you, yan, ren, xi,huo, and xin. It was interesting to learn the meaning for a lot of these radicals had a strong significance on the word that they created. Next, we worked on some sentence structures such as: "Na shi shenme?" or "What's that?" and "Na shi shei?" or "Who's that?" and lastly, "Ni xue shenme?" or "What do you study?". We also learned how to say what we study, for example, since I am an international business major, I would say, "Wo xue guo ji shang ye". That means, "I study international business".
Wednesday, we started the class with yet another homework checkup. This checkup was all about seeing if we understand the sentence structures and answers that we learned Monday in class, and reorganizing the hanzi of these sentences into the correct order. After that, Sun Laoshi, told us to choose a word or phrase that we found most difficult from Chapter four and write the hanzi on a sheet of paper. For example, some of the hanzi was 难，可是， 很多， 书。 Those words signify, nan-hard, keshi-but, henduo-a lot, and shu-book. We took some time reviewing these and helping our class helper guess these words when they were hidden from him
Friday in class, we started out look at radicals again, and the various meanings of those! Next we moved on to names, and discussed all of our classmates names in Chinese, and lastly went around the room and asked various people their chinese name and major!!
All in all, this week was interesting! It was cool to see how to say what we were majoring and studying in college. It kind of helps you relate more to what you are learning, when you feel the subject is assisting you in the kinds of things that are related to you. This week I have finished working on my midterm project for the class, which takes my major's of International business and Marketing, and applies them to the Chinese Market. In my project, I studied how McDonald's brought their company over to China, and how they had to/attempted to alter their business structure to fit China's culture. For this project, I interviewed Wang Laoshi. It will be interesting to see what the class thinks of my project!
More next week, Zai Jian!!
Ai Ke Ni
On Monday of this week we started off the class learning about bu shou- radicals, by taking a short checkup on them. Some of the following radicals we were quizzed on were: mu, you, yan, ren, xi,huo, and xin. It was interesting to learn the meaning for a lot of these radicals had a strong significance on the word that they created. Next, we worked on some sentence structures such as: "Na shi shenme?" or "What's that?" and "Na shi shei?" or "Who's that?" and lastly, "Ni xue shenme?" or "What do you study?". We also learned how to say what we study, for example, since I am an international business major, I would say, "Wo xue guo ji shang ye". That means, "I study international business".
Wednesday, we started the class with yet another homework checkup. This checkup was all about seeing if we understand the sentence structures and answers that we learned Monday in class, and reorganizing the hanzi of these sentences into the correct order. After that, Sun Laoshi, told us to choose a word or phrase that we found most difficult from Chapter four and write the hanzi on a sheet of paper. For example, some of the hanzi was 难，可是， 很多， 书。 Those words signify, nan-hard, keshi-but, henduo-a lot, and shu-book. We took some time reviewing these and helping our class helper guess these words when they were hidden from him
Friday in class, we started out look at radicals again, and the various meanings of those! Next we moved on to names, and discussed all of our classmates names in Chinese, and lastly went around the room and asked various people their chinese name and major!!
All in all, this week was interesting! It was cool to see how to say what we were majoring and studying in college. It kind of helps you relate more to what you are learning, when you feel the subject is assisting you in the kinds of things that are related to you. This week I have finished working on my midterm project for the class, which takes my major's of International business and Marketing, and applies them to the Chinese Market. In my project, I studied how McDonald's brought their company over to China, and how they had to/attempted to alter their business structure to fit China's culture. For this project, I interviewed Wang Laoshi. It will be interesting to see what the class thinks of my project!
More next week, Zai Jian!!
Ai Ke Ni
Friday, October 5, 2012
Week 4
Ni hao!
Well, week four has been quite the busy week for many students including myself here at NCC, but we learned a lot of interesting things in Chinese this past week!
For starters, on Monday we began the class with a checkup on the new vocabulary of Chapter Three. Chapter three deals with learning about languages, nationalities, and countries, and the asking of how and where someone might be from, for example. After the checkup, we began to learn some of our classmates names, that way we will be able to identify them when they are talking, and be able to relate to them in class. After we learned some of those, we moved on to the hanzi of Chapter three. During this time we went over the radicals such as wei, kou, nu, ren, and you, and used these radicals to help put together characters from the chapter such as shou, gou, & duile.
In Wednesday's class we took another checkup on pinyin of the other classmates names, as well as as the unscrambling of hanzi, that included questions such as "What is your name?" "Which country's people are you?", "What language do you speak?", and "Who is your classmate?". After that we went on to discuss different oral dialogues back and forth, asking "What language do you speak?" - "Ni shou shenme yu yan?" and "What country are you from?" - "Ni shi na guo ren?"
Today, in Friday's class, we started with radicals and formed some words that we had worked on previously. After that, we worked on a dialogue back and forth with our partners, taking turns asking "Ni jiao shenme mingzi?" and "Ni shi xuesheng ma?", and lastly, "Ni shou shenme yu yan?"
Friday after class, I went to the moon cake festival and that was alot of fun, it was interesting to learn that part of culture of Chinese! Hopefully week five will be a little less hectic!
Zai Jian!
Ai Ke Ni
"Courtney"
Well, week four has been quite the busy week for many students including myself here at NCC, but we learned a lot of interesting things in Chinese this past week!
For starters, on Monday we began the class with a checkup on the new vocabulary of Chapter Three. Chapter three deals with learning about languages, nationalities, and countries, and the asking of how and where someone might be from, for example. After the checkup, we began to learn some of our classmates names, that way we will be able to identify them when they are talking, and be able to relate to them in class. After we learned some of those, we moved on to the hanzi of Chapter three. During this time we went over the radicals such as wei, kou, nu, ren, and you, and used these radicals to help put together characters from the chapter such as shou, gou, & duile.
In Wednesday's class we took another checkup on pinyin of the other classmates names, as well as as the unscrambling of hanzi, that included questions such as "What is your name?" "Which country's people are you?", "What language do you speak?", and "Who is your classmate?". After that we went on to discuss different oral dialogues back and forth, asking "What language do you speak?" - "Ni shou shenme yu yan?" and "What country are you from?" - "Ni shi na guo ren?"
Today, in Friday's class, we started with radicals and formed some words that we had worked on previously. After that, we worked on a dialogue back and forth with our partners, taking turns asking "Ni jiao shenme mingzi?" and "Ni shi xuesheng ma?", and lastly, "Ni shou shenme yu yan?"
Friday after class, I went to the moon cake festival and that was alot of fun, it was interesting to learn that part of culture of Chinese! Hopefully week five will be a little less hectic!
Zai Jian!
Ai Ke Ni
"Courtney"
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